I met a talkative girl in my toastmasters club. She is very
good at her English language; she has good grammar, right ascent and ability to
pronounce the words. She is vocal about right use of English among our club.
Thanks to her schooling, she had strict English teachers.
I am on the other hand; do not have any sense of language. I
am not even sure of right use of my mother tongue, so English don’t even ask. I
have tried a lot to improve my English but realize the difficult to speak genuine
English. Even then I have learned to express myself with all grammatical and pronouncing
issues. My meeting with some Middle East
people gave me extra confidence. Some people say, if Americans can speak
American English and English men can speak British English, then why cant a
Keralite speak ‘Mallu English’. It gave me confidence to next level but I didn’t
want to ignore improvement. Definitively, work on my confidence than having right
English.
Last week, we all went for an annual conference. Few people
along with my friend who loves talking as well came with me. While coming back,
they all reminded me to drop them back at a particular point. My friend is not
a south Indian, she said ‘ANNNNNNNNNNA (brother in Tamil, in a weird accent and
she thought Anna is a Malayalam word). Please drop back near my house’. Then I realized
how weird it will be when a language is miss use and what will be the
sentiments of the people who knows that language correctly J
Comments
Post a Comment